If you've ever read her threads about her sister, it took her years to even come close to call her very abusive sister even abusive. Now she admits her sister is toxic, but it's still hard to get her to stop having so much empathy for her sister. One thing I know about OE is that her heart will bleed for someone who stabbed her in the back and she'll forgive them instantly for doing so because of the pain she knows they are going through...even though she's just been stabbed herself.

I've been called an empathetic person (at least on my better days). What OE experiences, which I have also witnessed from her, is a different level of empathy. And I wouldn't call it supernatural, but it's a special talent of being comfortable with other people's negative emotions and not being pushed away by them or uncomfortable, but being able to help them process those emotions - even to her own, or the empath's own detriment - like when dealing with a narcissist.

Just my two cents.